Episode 647, The Winds of Christmas

Do you have a favorite Christmas band composition? On this holiday episode of Wind & Rhythm, we discover music composed for, or arranged for, band.  We’ll hear Gustav Holst's “In the Bleak Midwinter”, Alfred Reed’s “Russian Christmas Music”, and more, all right here at the gathering place for people who love band music.

Joyeux Noël
  Alfred Reed
  The Eastern Wind Symphony, William H. Silvester
The Sussex Mummers' Christmas Carol
  Percy Grainger
  University of Florida Clarinet Ensemble, John Watkins

Santa Claus-trophobia
  Sandy Smith
  Fountain City Brass Band, Joseph Parisi
In the Bleak Midwinter
  Gustav Holst, arr. Robert W. Smith
  Emory University Symphonic Winds, Scott A. Stewart
The 4 Seasons: Violin Concerto in F minor,
"L'Inverno" (Winter)- I. Allegro non molto
  Antonio Vivaldi, arr. Julie Giroux
  University of North Texas Symphonic Band, Dennis Fisher
Christmas Time
  Jan Van Der Roost
  Harmonie de Charlesbourg, François Dorion
Sleigh Ride
  Leroy Anderson
  US Coast Guard Band, Commander W. Kenneth Megan
Little Drummer Boy/Pat-A-Pan
  Katherine K. Davis/ trad., arr. Bud Udell
  US Air Force Heritage of America Band Heritage Brass, 
  Lieutenant Colonel Douglas Monroe
O Magnum Mysterium
  Morten Lauridsen
  US Coast Guard Band, Commander W. Kenneth Megan
Russian Christmas Music
  Alfred Reed
  Dallas Wind Symphony, Jerry Junkin